GF requested steak dinner for V-Day, so I grilled up some strip steaks, perfection

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That looks good. I need to make some steaks soon.

 

Thanks man, I've been with my gf for like 9 months and had never cooked her steak. Definitely was time, plus it was actually warm yesterday so I didn't mind being outside grilling

 

Steak looks perfect! Did you grill the potato as well?

 

Thanks man, I thought about grilling them, but I actually baked them. I poked holes with a fork, coated them with olive oil, then hand ground sea salt and black pepper on the outside. They came out great!

 

My trick for potatoes has been to poke holes in them and then microwave them on high for 5-7 minutes each depending on the size of the potato. Then 15-20min on the grill which means they take about the same time or a little more than steaks normally. I will normally do about 15min on the grill on the same medium temp I am cooking my steak. Then when I take the steaks off and put them under tinfoil for 5min to sit before serving I crank the grill to high to make the skin nice and crispy.

 

only thing missing is some sour cream, shredded cheese and bacon on that potato.

 

Stealing this tip ....

 

Had organic grass fed butter and organic sour cream. No cheese or bacon though

 

a nice medium rare steak along is good enough, potato is just a nice side.

 

 

Its much better than waiting a full 45-60min to fully grill a potato and I honestly can't really tell a difference. So you get awesome potatos in half the time.

 

So last night I made some excellent sandwiches. I guess I would call them more of a panini since they were hot. They consisted of sliced chicken breast, 3 pepper jack cheese, honey mustard, sauteed onions, fresh jalapenoes, and 4 slices of bacon cook in my cast iron pan of course. I also use bacon grease instead of butter on the bread when I cooked them in the pan. The layers were as followed. Bread, honey mustard, sliced chicke, cheese, jalapenoes, onions, bacon, cheese, honey mustard, bread. I use cheese in two sperate layers to try and help hold everything together. I forgot to take picures of the first few layers but here is the most important parts. The chicken was just sliced deli counter chicken breast.





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Looks amazing J

 

OMG. Now I'm hungry...

 

I could eat like 4 of those

 

marble rye

 

I want another just looking at the pictures

 

Made a General Tso's flavored stir-fry last week, found a good stir-fry sauce at Trader Joe's

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Last night I made buffalo chicken rolls, they came out really good!

I used up the rest of my chicken tenderloins and smashed them down with a mallet, then marinated them in buffalo sauce

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Then I rolled them up with crumbled blue cheese in the middle

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All rolled up and ready for baking

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And the finished product, I let them bake an extra 5 minutes to try and brown them, and next time I probably won't, but they still came out really great!

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WTF am i doing here!?!?! It's still a hour until lunch and now im starving! Screw you guys!

 

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So this past weekend Megan and I went to the a restaurant we had never been to in Charlotte called the Cajun Queen. I wish we had gone sooner. The food was excellent. I had cajun season pan seared duck, with crawfish etouffee, garlic fried potatoes, and mixed vegatables. Sadly it was a special so hopefully it is one they will have again sometime when we go.

 

That duck

 

Over the past few years duck has become one of my favorite meals. Now if only I could find a good place to get some so I could try my hand at making it myself.

 

Same here man, I've wanted to smoke duck for quite a while. One of my fav local restaurants makes amazing duck, I had this a while back with pumpkin ravioli, spinach and spaghetti squash

 

That looks excellent.

 

Decided I needed to look into this more haha. I really want to make some duck. Preferably buying some bone in or boneless duck breasts and not the entire duck.

Buy Duck Breasts - Maple Leaf Farms

Buy Duck: Fresh Breasts, Muscovy, Pekin, Magret Shop D'Artagnan

The first place I can apparetly get from Publix or Lowe's Food. I don't know if you have either of them in your area. It appears Giant Eagle carries the first companies stuff. Don't know if they carry their duck or just other stuff. I am definitely going to have to go look this weekend.

Doesn't seem the cheapest stuff but the second place even has duck bacon They also sell several different types of duck as well.

 

I've seen duck at Whole Foods, don't think I ever looked at GE.... Lamb is my favorite meat, and I rocked a leg of lamb and 2 racks of lamb in the smoker the day after Christmas

 

OMG, i need this!

 

Dear God I miss good Cajun food. We had a local guy for years, in a little hole in the wall type place, and he was actually from New Orleans and his food was great. Gator, Poor Boys, red beans and rice. But he ended up getting lured away to some high priced restaurant and the days of cheap, filling cajun food for lunch disappeared.

 

I fucking love duck

 

 

Don't hate it till you've tried it

 

I love duck, you missed my edit

 

What if I told you I didn't

 

Thursday I made Corned Beef and Cabbage with my homebrewed Irish Red Ale, I sat the brisket on top of chopped red onions and garlic cloves

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Then poured in the beer

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Let it cook for 7 hours on low, then threw in the cabbage

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While the cabbage was cooking, I poured myself a homebrewed Irish Red

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The end result, this was after we ate and I trimmed all the fat off, I was so hungry I didn't take a finished product photo lol

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I had so much leftover cabbage, that I decided to make another Corned Beef brisket, so I bought another one and made it on Saturday, cooked it with more homemade Irish Red

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And the finished product!

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Brought it for lunch again today!

 

 

Made Beef Stroganoff last week, had 2 lbs of grass fed stew meat that I needed to use up, so I made this in the crockpot

I cut up garlic cloves, baby bellas and a red onion

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Then added the 2 lbs of stew meat, seasoning spices, soup and water

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The finished product, served over multigrain egg noodles, it was really good, have never made it before, the gf was very impressed

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That looks good Ack